Receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; friendly, courteous, sociable.
affably
affably
adv
in an affable manner
bacliff
baffled
baffled
adj
(not comparable) having baffles
thoroughly confused, puzzled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of baffle
baffler
baffler
noun
One of the projections inside a dice tower that serve to deflect the die unpredictably.
Something that causes one to be baffled, particularly a difficult puzzle or riddle.
baffles
baffles
noun
plural of baffle
bagfuls
bagfuls
noun
plural of bagful
bagsful
bailiff
bailiff
noun
(UK) A bound bailiff: a deputy bailiff charged with debt collection.
(UK) A high bailiff: an officer of the county courts responsible for executing warrants and court orders, appointed by the judge and removable by the Lord Chancellor.
(UK, slang) Any debt collector, regardless of his or her official status.
(US) Any law enforcement officer charged with courtroom security and order.
(historical) A head of a district ("bailiwick") of the Knights Hospitaller; a head of one of the national associations ("tongues") of the Hospitallers' headquarters on Rhodes or Malta.
(historical) A landvogt in the medieval German states.
(historical) A steward: the manager of a medieval manor charged with collecting its rents, etc.
(historical) An appointee of the French king administering certain districts of northern France in the Middle Ages.
(historical) An overseer: a supervisor of tenant farmers, serfs, or slaves, usually as part of his role as steward (see above).
(historical) Synonym of hundredman: The chief officer of a hundred in medieval England.
(historical, Norman term) A reeve, (specifically) the chief officer executing the decisions of any English court in the period following the Norman Conquest or executing the decisions of lower courts in the late medieval and early modern period.
(historical, mining) The foreman or overman of a mine.
(obsolete) A bailie: an alderman in certain Scottish towns.
(obsolete) A king's man: any officer nominated by the English Crown.
A huissier de justice or other foreign officer of the court acting as either a process server or as courtroom security.
The High Bailiff of the Isle of Man.
The chief justice and president of the legislature on Jersey and Guernsey in the Channel Islands.
The title of the castellan of certain royal castles in England.
As much (food) as a creature's beak will hold or carry.
beamful
beamful
adj
Beamy; radiant; luminous.
noun
A quantity in a beam (of wood, of light, etc)
beefalo
beefalo
noun
A cross between a domestic cow and an American buffalo or bison.
The meat of such a hybrid.
beefily
beefily
adv
In a beefy manner.
beetfly
beetfly
noun
Pegomya hyoscyami, a fly whose leaf miner larvae often damage the leaves of beets and other greens.
befalls
befalls
noun
plural of befall
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of befall
befilch
befilth
befilth
verb
(transitive, rare) To cover with filth; make filthy; begrime.
beflags
beflags
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beflag
befleas
befleas
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beflea
befleck
befleck
verb
(poetic) to cover with small spots or flecks
beflour
beflout
befools
befools
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of befool
befouls
befouls
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of befoul
befrill
befrill
verb
(transitive) To furnish or decorate with a frill.
begulfs
belfair
belfast
belfast
Proper noun
A seaport in and the capital of Northern Ireland.
A city in the State of Maine, USA.
A town in New York
A in Pennsylvania
An unincorporated community in California
A township in Murray County, Minnesota
A village in Prince Edward Island, Canada.
belford
belfort
beliefs
beliefs
noun
plural of belief
beowulf
beowulf
Proper noun
An Anglo-Saxon personal name, usually with reference to the hero of an Old English epic poem, or to the poem itself.
bifidly
bifidly
adv
In a bifid manner.
bifilar
bifilar
adj
Having two wires, threads or filaments
bifocal
bifocal
adj
(of a correcting lens) Divided into two parts, one of which corrects for distance vision and the other for near vision
(optics) Having two focal lengths
bifolia
bifolia
noun
plural of bifolium
blaflum
blowfly
blowfly
noun
Any of various flies of the family Calliphoridae that lay their eggs in rotting meat, dung, or open wounds.
blowoff
blowoff
noun
(UK, slang) A fart.
(colloquial) An outburst of temper or excitement.
A blowing off of steam, water, etc.
Something that is blown off.
The explosive separation of part of a rocket etc in order to prevent its destruction and allow for retrieval
bluefin
bluefin
noun
bluefin tuna, any of a number of types of tuna characterised by their blue fins.
bluffed
bluffed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bluff
bluffer
bluffer
adj
comparative form of bluff: more bluff
noun
one who bluffs
bluffly
bluffly
adv
In a bluff manner
bluford
blufter
boatful
boatful
noun
Enough of something to fill a boat, or a boat filled with the thing in question
bodeful
bodeful
adj
Portentous; ominous; foreboding.
boffola
boffola
noun
A coarse or farcical gag; a joke provoking hearty laughter.
boiloff
boiloff
noun
The vaporization of a liquid (or solid) whose boiling point is lower than that of the environment in which it is stored.
bookful
bookful
adj
(obsolete) Full of book-knowledge; stuffed with ideas gleaned from books.
noun
As much as a book holds.
bootful
bootful
noun
As much as a boot will hold.
bowlful
bowlful
Noun
As much as is held by a bowl.
boxfuls
boxfuls
noun
plural of boxful
briefly
briefly
adv
(duration) For a brief period.
(manner) In a brief manner, summarily.
To be brief, in short.
brimful
brimful
adj
Filled to maximum capacity.
noun
(figurative) A large amount.
The maximum amount a container can hold.
buffalo
buffalo
noun
(US slang) A nickel.
A related North American animal, the American bison, Bison bison.
Any of the Old World mammals of the family Bovidae, such as the Cape buffalo, Syncerus caffer, or the water buffalo Bubalus bubalis.
Ellipsis of buffalo robe.
The buffalo fish (Ictiobus spp.).
verb
(US, slang, transitive) To outwit, confuse, deceive, or intimidate.
(archaic, transitive) To pistol-whip.
(transitive) To hunt buffalo.
bushful
bushful
noun
As much as a bush holds.
byfield
cobloaf
conflab
conflab
noun
(informal) A discussion.
debtful
effable
effable
adj
(archaic) Able to be spoken of; able to be expressed.
(slang, vulgar) Fuckable; sexually attractive.
embelif
fabella
fabella
noun
(anatomy) One of the small sesamoid bones situated behind the condyles of the femur, in some mammals.
fabiola
fablers
fablers
noun
plural of fabler
fabliau
fabliau
noun
A short, farcical, often bawdy tale of a genre written in the North of France in the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries.
fabling
fabling
noun
The act of telling fables.
verb
present participle of fable
fabrile
fabrile
adj
Pertaining to a workman, or to work done in stone, metal, wood, etc.
fabular
fabular
adj
In the form of a fable.
Of, or pertaining to, fables.
fabyola
fadable
fadable
Adjective
Capable of fading, or losing its colour.
falbala
falbala
noun
A furbelow.
falbelo
febrile
febrile
adj
(medicine) Involving fever as a symptom or cause.
Feverish, or having a high temperature.
Full of nervous energy.
feeable
feeable
adj
For which a fee may be charged.
feebler
feebler
adj
comparative form of feeble: more feeble
fibrils
fibrils
noun
plural of fibril
fibulae
fibulae
noun
plural of fibula
fibular
fibular
adj
(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the fibula
fibulas
filbert
filbert
noun
A paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting with a long ferrule and a curving, tongue-shaped head.
The hazel tree.
The hazelnut.
filibeg
filibeg
noun
Alternative form of philibeg
fimbles
fimbles
noun
plural of fimble
finable
finable
adj
Punishable by a fine.
firbolg
fixable
fixable
adj
Capable of being fixed, repairable.
attachable
flabile
flabile
adj
(obsolete) Liable to be blown about; pertaining to wind or breath.
flabrum
flambee
flambes
flambes
noun
plural of flambe
flatbed
flatbed
adj
Having a flat bed.
noun
(computing) A document scanner with a flat bed.
A railway freight car with no sides; a flatcar.
An open freight vehicle with no sides, designed to carry heavy or outsized loads.
verb
To transport by flatbed.
fleabag
fleabag
noun
(slang) A bed or sleeping bag.
(slang) A mammal whom the speaker dislikes.
(slang) A place of shabby lodging, particularly a filthy hotel or run-down apartment.
(slang) An unkempt mammal.
fleabug
flebile
flobert
flobert
Noun
A small cartridge designed for target shooting; a ball cap.
flubbed
flubbed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of flub
flubber
flubber
noun
A rubbery polymer formed by cross-linking of polyvinyl alcohol with a boron compound, used as a plaything or to demonstrate physical properties.
One who flubs; a goof, a person who makes errors while speaking.
flubdub
flubdub
noun
(countable) A buffoon.
(uncountable) Trivial matters; nonsense.
fluible
flyable
flyable
adj
(of a route or distance) Passable by flight.
(of aircraft) Able to be flown; airworthy.
flyback
flyback
noun
A special kind of electrical transformer, originally designed to generate high-voltage sawtooth signals at a relatively high frequency, and now extensively used in switched-mode power supplies.
The movement of the electron beam back to its initial position between scan lines in a cathode-ray tube display.
flyball
flyball
noun
A type of dog-race where dogs jump over hurdles to get to and return from a tennis-ball dispensing box.
Alternative spelling of fly ball
flybane
flybane
noun
A poisonous mushroom, the fly agaric.
Certain catchflies of the genus Silene.
flybelt
flybelt
noun
Alternative form of fly belt
flyblew
flyblew
verb
simple past tense of flyblow
flyblow
flyblow
noun
The larva of the blowfly, especially when found on rotten meat.
verb
(transitive) To deposit eggs upon, as a blowfly does on meat; to cause to be maggoty.
(transitive, by extension) To taint or contaminate.
flyboat
flyboat
noun
A kind of passenger boat formerly used on canals.
A large flat-bottomed Dutch coasting vessel.
flybook
flybook
noun
(fishing) A small case for holding fishing flies.
flyboys
flyboys
noun
plural of flyboy
foibles
foibles
noun
plural of foible
fombell
forbled
forbled
adj
(obsolete) covered in blood
forblow
foulbec
fourble
fourble
noun
A set of oil drilling pipes having four joints.
friable
friable
adj
(mathematics, of a number) Smooth: that factors completely into small prime numbers.
(of poisons) Likely to crumble and become airborne, thus becoming a health risk
(of soil) Loose and large-grained in consistency.
Easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder.
fribble
fribble
adj
Of little or no importance, frivolous.
noun
A frivolous, contemptible fellow; a fop.
A trifler.
A trifling action.
verb
To behave in a frivolous way.
To totter.
To waste or fritter.
froebel
fulbert
fumbled
fumbled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fumble
fumbler
fumbler
noun
Agent noun of fumble; one who fumbles.
fumbles
fumbles
noun
plural of fumble
fusible
fusible
adj
Able to be fused or melted.
noun
Any substance that can be fused or melted.
fusibly
fusibly
adv
In a fusible manner.
leafboy
lebhaft
liftboy
liftboy
noun
A male elevator attendant.
lobefin
lobefin
noun
Any of the fish of the class Sarcopterygii.
lubrify
lufbery
noblify
plebify
plebify
verb
(transitive) To make plebeian; to vulgarize.
rebluff
rebluff
noun
(gambling, rare) Act of responding to a bluff with another bluff.
verb
(very rare) To respond to a bluff with another bluff.